- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Photograph of the Great Spring at the Red Clay site at Red Clay State Park in Bradley County, Tennessee] / [by Gerald F. Schroedl]
- Creator:
- Schroedl, Gerald F.
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, McClung Museum Photographic Collection, photograph mm059.
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- Red Clay Site (Tenn.)
Cherokee Indians--Antiquities
Springs
Historic sites - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Bradley County, 35.15411, -84.8596
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This photograph is of the Great Spring at the Red Clay site at Red Clay State Park in Bradley County, Tennessee. The Great Spring, also known as the Blue Hole Spring, is a natural spring that not only supplied the Cherokees with potable water but was also a sacred and spiritual place for them. By 1832, the state of Georgia had refused Cherokees the right to hold council unless the meeting involved treating for land cessions. The Cherokees decided to move their capital from New Echota, Georgia to Red Clay, Tennessee because the state of Tennessee did not prohibit the Cherokees from assembling. Thus, Red Clay became the seat of the Cherokee government from 1832 until forced removal in 1838. The Cherokees carried hot coals from their council fire at Red Clay on the Trail of Tears.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- mm059
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm059
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm059#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm059/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright by the Frank H. McClung Museum. All rights reserved.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], McClung Museum Photographic Collection, Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 photograph
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
